FAMILY-LIFE AND TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN THE INNER-CITY - EXPERIENCES OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUTH
FAMILY-LIFE AND TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN THE INNER-CITY - EXPERIENCES OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUTH
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DOI：
10.1016/0190-7409(95)00008-z
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发表时间：
1995-01-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
DANZIGER, SK
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作者：
DANZIGER, SK
本文对深度访谈进行了分析，以比较贫困社区中家庭过程和受教育机会作为与性和母亲相关的因素的相对可信程度。这些数据来自1987年至1990年期间对80名年龄在15岁至20岁之间的非裔美国女性的生活史采访。对家庭生活的看法被编码为情感关系、家庭规则的存在和压力事件的程度三个维度。早期教育描述被编码在个人经历和家庭对学生角色的鼓励两个维度上。研究了家庭生活和早期教育对初性者年龄和学龄期母亲的影响。推迟开始性行为的年轻女性，即使在十几岁的母亲时期也留在学校的年轻女性，对成为学生以及接受家庭鼓励和监督有更积极的看法。根据这些年轻女性的说法，针对早期家庭和学校联系的政策和计划，增加家庭社会支持，以及改善获得生殖保健的机会，将减少市中心青少年怀孕的情况。
This paper analyzes in-depth interviews to compare the relative plausibility of family processes versus schooling opportunities as factors associated with sex and motherhood in poor communities. The data are from life history interviews with 80 African-American women aged 15-20, conducted between 1987-90. Perceptions of family life were coded into three dimensions of emotional relationships, presence of rules in the home, and extent of stressful events. Early schooling descriptions were coded in two dimensions of personal experiences of and familial encouragement of the student role. The impact of family life and early schooling for both age of first sex and school-age motherhood is examined. The young women who delayed onset of sexual activity, and who stayed in school even as a teen mother, had more positive perceptions of being students and of receiving family encouragement and supervision. Policies and programs that target early home-school linkages, increase familial social supports, and improve access to reproductive health care would, according to these young women, reduce teen pregnancy in the inner-city.